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Volume 13, Number 1
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 Spring 2008 Edition Cover Artwork "Prime" by Katherine Blair Yancey at Piedmont Virginia Community College |
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Student Support Services for the Underprepared Student |
This essay considers statistical reports on underprepared students, the history of developmental education, the characteristics of underprepared students, and the reasons it is imperative that we provide these students with a college-level education. |
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Podcasting’s Possibilities |
In 2005, Wytheville Community College developed a Quality Enhancement Plan to emphasize student speaking and listening competencies. This article suggests that podcasting is a promising instructional technique to build oral skills and to enliven teaching and learning. |
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Using Analogies to Assess Student Learning |
The author offers his experiences in using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) in his geology courses to gauge his students’ grasp of course concepts. |
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Increasing the Success of Online Students |
In this article, the author presents ways that colleges can use student readiness, orientation, and support to increase the likelihood for success of their online students. |
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Germanna’s
Treasure Trove of History: A Journey of Discovery |
The author shares the rich historical setting of Germanna Community College’s Locust Grove Campus, as well as the classroom and college activities and events that have grown alongside his discoveries. |
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What would Freud say to Voltaire? The Use of Dialogues in Survey Courses By Linda Simmons |
In this essay, the author argues that assigning dialogues in survey courses is a viable alternative to traditional research-based essays. |
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Po? Pow? What! A Class Project to Study Linguistic Variation in English By Bruce A. Sofinski with Dyan Hansford, Sue Matthews, Rochelle Taylor, Kathryn Wilson, Rachel Henry and Lydia Polonofsky |
This article explains how a final class project in an American Sign Language course teaches teamwork, critical thinking, and research methodology. |
